Once a day is an idea coming from two young italian designers, Matteo Sangalli and Erika Zorzi. Daily, they post on their blog 01Mathery http://01mathery.tumblr.com/page/2 a creative recycled idea. Have a look and find something new every day. Our favourite is the HerbHanger, until now…
« Ho viste cose che voi umani non potreste immaginare. Navi da combattimento in fiamme al largo dei bastioni di Orione. E ho visto i raggi B balenare nel buio vicino alle porte di Tannhauser. E tutti quei momenti andranno perduti nel tempo come lacrime nella pioggia. È tempo di morire. » “Blade Runner”, gli …
Industrial designer Patrick Frey’s “Gregor Calendar” poignantly illustrates the unbearable lightness of being by slowly unraveling with the passage of time into a useless heap on the barren floor of infinite nothing. Available for purchase here. | via & via
Old-school basket weave is fine if that’s your thing, but what real choice is there if you care about how your bike looks, and your style is more urban than country cottage? What if you ride a stylish single-speed but you also want to carry bags and groceries? Our response? The Bike Porter. The Bike …
Like hot meets cold, the new Freitag Reference line is the meltdown of neo and retro: on one hand inspired by horse messengers of the 1800s, on the other hand initiated and endorsed by contemporary journalists.Messenger comes from message; and today, the media are the horse that carries him. A new chapter in the Freitag …
The idea of this flipbook by Masashi Kawamura is simple but very effective: when you flip it, it creates a rainbow in your hands. This book started as a personal project in summer 2007, but soon it was published by the Japanese bookstore “Utrecht”. | via
…for people who never heard about this band, the name could remind of the most famous car of “Back to the Future”, cult movie of the mid 80’s. And , to be honest, there is a bit of “back to the 80’s” influence in the tunes of this basque band. Celebrating their 10th year of …
To protest the irritation of constant surveillance, Thomas voor ‘t Hekke and Bas van Oerle, working under the name “Helden,” conceived of a project called “panoptICONS,” which involves placing “camera birds” — half-bird, half-surveillance camera — throughout the city of Utrecht. “”panoptICONS addresses the fact that we are constantly being watched by surveillance cameras in city centres. …
Il ponticello in ferro che dalla periferia di Budapest consente l’accesso sull’isola di Obuda è un pò come la porticina che varca Alice per giungere nel paese delle meraviglie. Sziastoc, Privet, Salve, Welcome recita il cartello multilingue, che accoglie all’ingresso una moltitudine impaziente di giovani con i volti arrossati dal sole e le spalle cariche …
Considero la cucina e il mondo dell’enogastronomia estremamente interessanti, quindi … ecco a voi il primo post da “Nonna Papera”!..Scherzo, ovviamente questo non è il solito ricettario, dietro c’è di più. C’è lei, Sigrid Verbert alias Il cavoletto di Bruxelles. Ho scoperto questa ragazza dall’aspetto fresco e gentile curiosando tra gli innumerevoli foodblog (crescono come …
Alice Rosignoli presents the 20 Hangers wardrobe. This auto-produced wardrobe is made of common wood hangers and black ropes. Each of these items is used in its ordinary function in the product and yet, when assembled, confers a decisive evolution to the structure and aesthetic of a familiar item, the wardrobe. The wardrobe illustrates the need …
We all know the importance of saving water. But to some people, they think water is the most abundant natural resources that they could just take for granted. Unfortunately, most of the water on this earth is not directly in potable form. Saving water means saving the energy required to filter and purity water. “Poor …
Dal 1994 un’ importante manifestazione puntualmente colora la città di Bologna: The Italian Miss Alternative, la kermesse più irriverente e trasformista, torna anche quest’anno, il 12 Settembre, nel cuore della città, a Palazzo re Enzo. Da 16 anni, Miss Alternative è il simbolo primo di fantasia e creatività: le sue modelle, giovanotti e giovanotte piene …
